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Artist: The Wildhearts
Canonical path: /the-wildhearts/can-t-do-right-for-doing-wrong
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Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong
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Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong
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It's the strangest feeling ever
You keep trying your best but it's just a arrested endeavour
So you buckle up, face the day
And try to make the ever grey like heaven
Like heaven
But it's not too easy
When you think you've got it, cos somebody
Gotta be a joker and keep up a little humour - jealous?
Tinkering a bag or two or talking can I interest you?
Well you know how it is
Well, you've been out of your seat for way too long
You've got to get your trainer tapping to a different song
You I can't do right for doing wrong
Oh, no
So it's best to relax and get drunk
Then the guys at the fire remind you that you've been a cun-t
Well, I've done wrong for a start
If you open your mouth, the truth comes out
And none likes to hear that sort of stuff so it's best just to relax and shut up
Yeah, that's the best plan
No, that ain't never right
Yeah, that's the best thing to do
Catch a-someone laughing and I choke it up before I don't
Want to be unpopular because you've got to pick a to the likeness to Japan
And to a shitty little band and you know that would be funny
Well you've been away from it all and you don't belong
Unless your cock gets hard at a football song
You I can't do right for doing wrong
Out of your seat, get
Out of your seat, get
Out of your seat, get
Out of your seat, get
Back in your seat, get
Back in your seat, get
Back in your seat, get
Back in your seat, get
Back among the things that we let gather to the top
It isn't what you're knowing, it's a case of who you're blowing
Get your phallus to communicate, you got to take it to the case
And socially they'll let you be, so long as we can copulate
You want to be a big shot, you'd better stop by saying
(I can't do right for doing wrong)
Yes please, stash, get my fingers in your pants
(I can't do right for doing wrong)
I'm gonna lick it too, and suck a few, and just give me a chance
(I can't do right for doing wrong)
I'll be a good dog, prick me and you'll never be been retired a chemical wide
(I can't do right for doing wrong, can't do right for doing wrong)
Yeah, yeah, open wide - You know I can't do right for doing wrong
No, no, no, I can't - You know I can't do right for doing wrong
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